I would like to respond to recent comments from your correspondent Theresa Daynes of Ingleby Barwick (The Right Place For Twister).

Gone are the days when Ingleby Barwick was the Yuppie centre of the borough, where young suburban residents with well-paid professional jobs and affluent lifestyles once dominated the population.

It is now home to thousands of young families with children, as the development of new schools in the area proves. These children need somewhere to play.

If they play in the streets they're accused of "anti-social behaviour"; if they have nowhere else to play, their only alternative is to sit in front of the TV or Play Station and vegetate until they're old enough to get jobs.

Before we take on Theresa Dayne's suggestion to ship the kids out to "non-residential places", I would suggest that she considers this: one day our children will be responsible adults, some of whom will be employed to look after us when we're older and living in retirement homes.